List of useful websites

Research

For more information on the lives of individuals who were at Sarah Island and access to copies of some of the original correspondence see: F. Preston, ed. ‘Ian Brand’s Macquarie Harbour Historical Research’, Department of Primary Industry and Water:
http://dpiw.tas.gov.au/library/Brand/Front%20page.html

For the complete text of the Macquarie Harbour narrative written by Davis see: H. Maxwell-Stewart ed. Memoranda by Convict Davis Servant to Mr Foster, Superintendent of Convicts, Norfolk Island, 1843—Relating principally to Macquarie Harbour:
http://iccs.arts.utas.edu.au/narratives/davis1.html

For a very useful site on newspaper reports of Supreme Court Hearings see: S. Petrow and B. Kercher eds, Decisions of the Nineteenth Century Tasmanian Superior Courts, Division of Law, Macquarie University, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania:
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/sctas

For a complete list of the proceedings of the Old Bailey prior to 1835 see: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834:
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org

Visiting

For those interested in making a trip to Macquarie Harbour I thoroughly recommend the tour conducted by the Round Earth Company:
http://www.roundearth.com.au/sarah.htm

For information on getting to Sarah Island See World Heritage Cruises:
http://www.totalluxuryaustralia.com.au/581/

and Pure Tasmania:
http://www.puretasmania.com.au/?gclid=CMr1q9DempECFRk0awodMHJoPQ

Remains of the kiln at limekiln reach. After it was first constructed it was capable of turning out 130 bushels every four days. See chapter 2 Voyage through the gates of hell. Drawing by Prue Theobalds, December 2006.